Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

SERMONS IN VERSE . A number of 12th- and 13th-century poems were called “sermons” by their authors, but the term seems to have r ...

an erotic allegory. Moreover, the actor may inject a topical meaning derived from historical circumstances. In this way, St. Jam ...

stories having occurred along the way. The oldest text in the western Seven Sages tradition is the Old French verse romance Sept ...

become evil and die dishonored. In the sequels, the chief male protagonists are Marques, son of the sage Cato, and his descendan ...

SHIPS AND SHIPPING . In the Middle Ages, boats allowed the movement of relatively large amounts of goods and troops less expensi ...

SICILIAN VESPERS . On Easter 1282, when the French sergeant Drouet molested a young Sicilian woman in Palermo just before Vesper ...

survive, with the number of questions ranging from about 600 to over 1,200. The work touches on theology, astronomy, obstetrics, ...

similar mind are known as “Latin Averroists.” As is usual for the 12th and 13th centuries, they knew Aristotle mostly through th ...

[See also: CISTERCIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE; SÉNANQUE; THORONET, LE] Esquieu, Yves. “L’abbaye de Silvacane.” Congrès archéologiqu ...

Chambers, Frank M. “Imitation of Form in the Old Provençal Lyric.” Romance Philology 6(1952– 53):104–20. ——. An Introduction to ...

the 1150s. Between ca. 1170 and ca. 1190, a new transept was built, of which only the four-story, rounded-plan south arm now sur ...

which features two graceful Flamboyant towers. Other reminders of the abbey include the 13th-century double-naved refectory, two ...

SONE DE NAUSAY . A long verse romance (over 21,300 lines) of the late 13th century, Sone de Nausay (or Nansai) is the story of a ...

Schnerb-Lièvre, Marion, ed. Le songe du vergier (édité d’après le manuscrit royal 19 CIV de la British Library). 2 vols. Paris: ...

forms, especially sirventes and partimens; he is best known for his planh on the death of Blacatz. Elizabeth W.Poe [See also: TR ...

sotties and other dramatic amusements. The most important of these societies were those of Paris (whose “fools” made up the Enfa ...

game in the Sots ecclésiastiques to show the insatiable avarice and duplicity of certain prelates. In some plays, such as the Ge ...

Souillac (Lot), church of Sainte-Marie. Isaiah. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S.Stoddard. latory with three radiating chapels—i ...

Labourdette, Régis. “Remarques sur la disposition originelle du portail de Souillac.” Gesta 18(1979):29–35. Schapiro, Meyer. Rom ...

lifetime by his son, the future emperor Louis the Pious (778–840), and was the origin of the area later known as Catalonia. Afte ...